| Title | : | A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Tommy Orange, Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman, Elif Batuman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Leone Ross & Joshua Cohen |
| Release | : | 2024-06-04 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Fiction |
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| 1 | A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kaf | Tommy Orange, Ali Smith, Naomi Alderman, Elif Batuman, Helen Oyeyemi, Keith Ridgway, Yiyun Li, Charlie Kaufman, Leone Ross & Joshua Cohen |
| What happens when Kafka’s idiosyncratic imagination meets some of the greatest literary minds writing in English across the globe today? Find out in this anthology of brand-new Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers. Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most enigmatic geniuses of European literature. He’s been hailed a profit and a diagnostician, and a century after his death, his unique perspective on the anxieties, injustices, and rapidly shifting belief systems of the modern world continues to speak to our contemporary moment. From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to an apartment search that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by a twentieth-century visionary, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today. |
